This was kind of amusing:
On Sunday a group of Embry-Riddle students organized their own “Roadside Awareness Rally” about the new plan, holding signs along a Daytona Beach road with slogans like “Let Us Go To The Moon” and, bizarrely, “Constellation will REVIVE our WORLD’S ECONOMY!” (um, points for enthusiasm, at least.)
Constellation: like alcohol, it is the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems.
Challenging the constitutionality of part of the Voting Rights Act.
It’s about time. Voter segregation by fiat should in itself be unconstitutional.
More thoughts, with lots of links, on the judicial prospects for ObamaCare, from Clarice Feldman.
Pretty cool. What does this say about prospects for extraterrestrial life?
Especially the most recent three. Star Wars as a comedy series.
Apparently, Hollywood (and Abu Dhabi) are up to their old tricks again, demonizing and lying about the Bush administration, in a new fictional movie about the Plame affair. This is a consequence of the fact that so much Hollywood money comes from overseas, to make movies planned in advance to appeal to anti-American sensibilities. That’s one of the reasons there were so many troop-bashing and America-bashing movies about Iraq in the past few years, that bombed at the American box office.
It would be amusing to raise some money in America to do the real story, and see which does better with the audience.
David Boaz has some thoughts on our mythical libertarian past, and offers some useful perspective.
Or at least NASA’s not counting on one:
NASA will pay $335 million to Russia for four round-trip flights to the International Space Station in 2013 and 2014 under the terms of a new deal announced today by the American space agency.
The contract extends previous agreements with the Russians that ensure the station can keep a six-member crew after NASA retires the shuttle this year.
I wonder what the termination clause is if there is a decision to extend?
I found Lileks’ Bleat more amusing than normal this morning. What an eye for cultural detail.
“What’s that?,” asks Harry Reid:
Reid said he understands why some are angry at government and Washington during an economic recession that cost people jobs and sent the home foreclosure rates skyrocketing.
But he expressed confusion about what the Tea Party movement wants when its members call for more liberty and freedom and cite the Constitution in denouncing what they see as an expansion of the federal government, including with health care reform.
“The people who are really upset don’t really know why they’re upset,” Reid said.
“What do they mean?” Reid said he wonders when they call for more liberty and freedom. “I’m happy to talk about issues.”
“They want things to be the way they used to be,” Reid said. “They will never be the way they used to be.”
Well, I’m glad that I have intellectual betters like Harry Reid to tell me why I’m really upset.
Is he really this clueless, or does he just play it on teevee?
And did he notice that he could only get one percent of the number to turn out for his campaign start as showed up to protest him a week and a half ago? Oh, well. He’ll get a chance to spend more time with his family in a few months.
[Update a while later]
Harry Reid’s son is also going down in flames in his race for governor.
Good.